Mathematical modeling is the use of applying mathematics to real-world problems and investigating important questions about their outcomes. Mathematical Modeling with Excel presents various methods used to build and analyze mathematical models in a format that students can quickly comprehend.

Excel is used as a tool to accomplish this goal of building and analyzing the models. Ideal for math and secondary math education majors, this text presents a wide variety of common types of models, as well as some new types, and presents each in a unique, easy-to-understand format. End-of-chapter exercises ask students to modify or refine the existing model, analyze it further, or adapt it to similar scenarios.

Features & Benefits

- A user-friendly writing style makes the text appropriate for a wide range of students.

- Covers topics in a unique way by beginning each section with a theoretical derivation of a model scenario, then showing step-by-step instructions for implementing and dynamically analyzing the model in Excel.

- Includes an extensive section on simulation models.

- The spreadsheets, built according to instruction, allow students to dynamically change the values of parameters and analyze changes in the behavior of the model.